Ah, the lovely "dog eats dog" story… We're humans, though, we should do better than that.

Now in practice, the winner is the one who wield the bigger guns. Meaning, the US will put its army where the oil is, though not before having talked of weapons of mass destructions, a dictator, terrorists, or whatever.

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Globalization or not, machines are eating our work. A good thing if you ask me: we don't want more work, we want less. People who ask for work don't give a shit about spending all day doing a thankless job. What they really want is dignity (there is shame in unemployment) and money.

Now the lucky few that love their jobs… more power to them. The rest of us would rather work 3 days a week instead of 5 if it didn't mean losing so much of their income.

> for a lot of businesses, that wouldn't work, especially when people choose to work long hours for high pay, which is common in finance.

In finance, long hours are not exactly voluntary, they're expected. Moreover, you don't get the high pay right away, you have to "pay your dues" first —as if you owed you employer for the privilege of being hired.